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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Terrorist Release is Rebuff for Obama

by Max Boot

The loathsome Ali Musa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah
operative who engineered the kidnapping and killing of five American
soldiers in Iraq in 2007, is reportedly back in Beirut, no doubt basking
in his new-found freedom to plan fresh terrorist outrages.
His release from Iraqi custody, while not unexpected, is nevertheless
dismaying. The U.S., after having released all other detainees, turned
him over last to Iraqi custody in 2011 hoping against hope that the
Iraqis could somehow be persuaded to keep him locked up. Fat chance.

What makes the whole situation really pathetic is that Vice President
Biden called Prime Minister Maliki in recent days pleading for Daqduq
not to be released. The fact that he was set free anyway is hardly a
sign of Maliki’s respect for the rule of law. It is a sign of how little
influence the U.S. now wields in Iraq and how much influence Iran now
has. Daqduq, after all, was in Iraq working for the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard Corps to train Shiite militants to attack U.S.
personnel. His release is a big victory for Iran and a big defeat for
the United States.

If President Obama is chagrined about the outcome, he had no one to
blame but himself. His failure to make a serious push to maintain U.S.
forces in Iraq past 2011 means that our influence over that country’s
future is marginal. There is little, alas, we can do as Iraq aligns
itself more closely with Iran and against our interests in the region.Max BootSource: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/11/16/terrorist-release-is-rebuff-for-obama-daqduq-maliki-iraq/Copyright - Original materials copyright (c) by the authors.